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(Ramin Talaie/Corbis via Getty Images) Citi plans to launch bitcoin custody later this year, allowing institutional clients to hold BTC alongside traditional assets. The service will be part of Citi’s new Custody+ platform, which combines custody, settlement and other services for large investors. The move could make it easier for institutions to hold bitcoin through a major bank instead of relying on a separate crypto custodian. Citigroup plans to begin offering bitcoin custody later this year,

Crypto’s easy-money era is ending in a wave of failures. (Unsplash) Crypto’s wave of closures is exposing projects that raised too much money at unrealistic valuations without building sustainable revenue, Kirkley said. Token-based governance and fundraising incentives compounded the problem by making it harder for projects to pivot and rewarding overly optimistic narratives. The shakeout comes as bitcoin approaches a potentially critical support zone, but Kirkley says governments are increasing

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Block (CoinDesk) Cash App is expanding its cryptocurrency offerings beyond bitcoin and USDC through crypto payments platform MoonPay. Through MoonPay, Cash App customers will be able to purchase tokens such as ether, solana, XRP and USDT and fund popular wallets including Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask and Uniswap. Cash App’s crypto offering has historically been restricted to bitcoin, until it added support for USDC earlier this year. Cash App’s crypto

Visa offices. (Media/Visa) Visa is looking for a settlement and over-the-counter (OTC) partner with cryptocurrency exchange licenses in the U.S., Canada, UK and Singapore. The prospective partner will also handle settlement for the newly introduced Open USD stablecoin project, which plans to support multiple stablecoins. Visa is looking for a new stablecoin settlement partner with licensing capabilities across multiple regions, according to documents seen by CoinDesk. This would fill the role pr

Ethereum’s next upgrade breaks the '21,000 gas' rule wallets rely on. (Unsplash) Ethereum’s next major upgrade, Glamsterdam, will end the long-standing rule that every basic ether (ETH) transfer costs a flat 21,000 units of gas. Under the change, sending ETH to an existing account will still cost 21,000 gas, but transfers to never-before-used addresses will incur an additional 183,600 units of new “state gas.” Ethereum developers are warning wallet providers and blockchain services to update any

Harvesting season drives up demand for diesel. (aboutmoments33/Shutterstock) This is an excerpt from CoinDesk newsletter 'Daybook.' Sign up here , if you haven't already. On Monday, CoinDesk reported that Goldman Sachs was downplaying the chance of the Federal Reserve raising interest rates in September, citing slower inflation and echoing dovish expectations among traders, a potential tailwind for bitcoin BTC $ 64,301.96 . New data is muddying that outlook. The first detail is the difference be

South Korea has restricted access to Polymarket over gambling concerns South Korea has blocked local access to the prediction market Polymarket, citing violations of the country’s Criminal and National Sports Promotion Acts. Regulators rejected Polymarket's defense regarding its P2P nature, arguing the platform manages market rules and facilitates crypto-based gambling activity. The decision aligns South Korea with over 30 other jurisdictions, including France and Spain, that have restricted the

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk) Bitcoin is retracing Monday's rally from $62,600 to $64,600, tracking a pullback in Nasdaq 100 futures driven by rising bond yields and oil prices. Brent crude rose back to $94 a barrel after a 60-day U.S.-Iran ceasefire expired Monday without a deal, adding to inflation uncertainty ahead of Wednesday's Fed minutes. The Federal Reserve releases minutes from its July 28-29 FOMC meeting on Wednesday, the same day President Trump is expected to meet crypto industry executiv

BTC outperformed U.S. stocks Monday. Bitcoin rose by 2.6% to above $64,000 on Monday, its best daily performance in over a month, while the S&P 500 fell 0.52%. The move marked a rare recent instance of bitcoin decisively outperforming and moving opposite to U.S. stocks, after trailing the S&P 500 on about two-thirds of trading days over the past three months. Bitcoin BTC $ 64,130.46 scored a rare achievement on Monday by outperforming the S&P 500. The largest cryptocurrency rose 2.6% to over $64

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Key level where BTC longs face liquidation risk. (Rafael Minguet Delgado/Pexels) $57,000 is the key liquidation level for bitcoin’s leveraged longs. Thin liquidity could amplify any liquidation-driven sell-off. Despite the downside risks, BTC’s resilience and a potential inverse head-and-shoulders pattern keep the bullish case alive. For bitcoin BTC $ 64,373.66 traders holding bullish futures bets, $57,000 is the key level, not because it counts as key support from where the market turned higher

XRP slips below $1 even as Korean regional bank adopts Ripple Payments. (Daniel Bernard/Unsplash) XRP fell below $1 and is the weakest major token over the past day and week, even as Ripple expands its institutional partnerships. Ripple’s new deal with South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank brings near real-time cross-border payments to regional business customers but does not clarify which stablecoin powers the transfers. Ripple’s push of its RLUSD stablecoin as the main settlement asset helps explain why

Monad, an Ethereum rival, offered early investors up to $60 million to cash out. Shutterstock) The Monad Foundation completed a program offering to buy locked MON tokens from select early investors at a discount, but says few chose to sell. Any MON tokens repurchased in the program will remain locked on their original vesting schedule, meaning the buyback does not accelerate tokens coming onto the market. MON’s price has lagged despite rapid growth in Monad’s decentralized finance activity, and

Bitcoin climbs above $64,000 while most majors slip. (Asa E K/Unsplash) Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 and was the only major cryptocurrency with a notable daily gain, while most other large tokens slipped or were flat. Analysts said bitcoin remains stuck between $62,000 and $65,000 and below key moving averages, leaving sellers in control of medium- and long-term trends. Publicly listed bitcoin miners have cut computing power by 21 percent over three quarters as they shift capacity to AI, even a

Bitcoin climbs above $64,000 while most majors slip. (Asa E K/Unsplash) Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 and was the only major cryptocurrency with a notable daily gain, while most other large tokens slipped or were flat. Analysts said bitcoin remains stuck between $62,000 and $65,000 and below key moving averages, leaving sellers in control of medium- and long-term trends. Publicly listed bitcoin miners have cut computing power by 21 percent over three quarters as they shift capacity to AI, even a

Kraken parent Payward joins Anthropic’s Project Glasswing for AI security push. (CoinDesk) Kraken parent Payward has joined Anthropic’s Project Glasswing and gained access to Claude Mythos 5, its frontier AI model for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities. Payward plans to deploy the model across its environments to identify security flaws before they can be exploited. The company said vulnerabilities found in third-party open-source software will be disclosed to project maintainers, poten

MSTR has fallen about 38% this year amid bitcoin’s decline, though the shares gained about 5% Monday as Saylor left the door open to future buybacks. Strategy plans to maintain larger cash reserves and could sell bitcoin when needed as it works to support STRC and its dividend payments. Saylor said Strategy wants STRC to remain near its $100 issue price, while MSTR investors should have a time horizon of at least four years. It’s not a priority, said Executive Chairman Michael Saylor, but Strate

The BitMart Chinese-language X account was hacked, according to founder Sheldon Lee. (Sebastiaan Stam/Unsplash) BitMart founder Sheldon Lee dismissed as “fabricated rumors” an X post alleging that customers cannot withdraw funds and some employees have not been paid their July salaries, saying the exchange’s Chinese-language account was hacked. Users and critics, including onchain investigator ZachXBT, are demanding that BitMart restore withdrawals or submit to independent third-party audits, as